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Made the first save of the game - a comfortable parry at his near post from Tevez - before denying Nasri with a sprawling low save. Took a couple of confident catches as well as tipping one dangerous corner over his crossbar. But was beaten at his near-post by a well-struck Toure drive. If you're being harsh, you could say Cech may have done better with the goal, however well hit the ball was. The same could not be said for City's second goal as Tevez smashed a right-footed shot into the top corner from 18 yards.


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Open source software as a model for health care
A doctor looks to software communities as inspiration for her own research
(The following article sprang from a collaboration between Andy Oram and Brigitte Piniewski to cover open source concepts in an upcoming book on health care. This book, titled "Wireless Health: Remaking of Medicine by Pervasive Technologies," is edited by Professor Mehran Mehregany of Case Western Reserve University. and has an expected release date of February 2013. It is designed to provide the reader with the fundamental and practical knowledge necessary for an overall grasp of the field of wireless health. The approach is an integrated, multidisciplinary treatment of the subject by a team of leading topic experts. The selection here is part of a larger chapter by Brigitte Piniewski about personalized medicine and public health.)
Medical research and open source software have much to learn from each other. As software transforms the practice and delivery of medicine, the communities and development methods that have grown up around software–particularly free and open source software–also provide models that doctors and researchers can apply to their own work. Some of the principles that software communities can offer for spreading health throughout the population include these:
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To move from a hothouse environment of experimentation to the mainstream of one of the world's most lucrative and tradition-bound industries, Sage Bionetworks must aim for its nucleus: rewards and incentives. Comparisons to open source software and a summary of tasks for Sage Congress.
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The Vioxx problem is just one instance of the wider malaise afflicting the drug industry. Managers from major pharma companies expressed confidence that they could expand public or "pre-competitive" research in the direction Sage Congress proposed. The sector left to engage is the one that's central to all this work–the public.
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║ Schools: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Missouri, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt
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1. Running back Marcus Lattimore's injuries a blessing in disguise at South Carolina? "We were able to move on when Marcus got hurt. You can't just sit there and sulk. You have to move on and find ways to get better."
2. Spring practice starts at Alabama. Five questions and five players to watch.
3. Second-day spring practice impressions at Florida. "Jeff Driskel looked much more comfortable than he did last spring…"
4. Situational scrimmage at Tennessee today. Offensive coordinator Mike Bajakian: "I want to identify who the playmakers are, put guys in situations to make plays and see who steps up when the lights go on."
5. LSU center Elliott Porter has a "medical issue" that will cause him to miss at least a few days of spring practice. La'El Collins is moving from left guard to left tackle this spring.
6. LSU linebacker Lamin Barrow had 104 tackles last year. Defensive coordinator John Chavis: "He's a really talented player and we'll need him to show it."
7. Auburn has running back Tre Mason but what's in the backfield beyond him?
8. Former Arkansas quarterback Tyler Wilson impressive at the Razorbacks pro day on Friday.
9. Coach Bret Bielema is focused on who will replace Wilson. "I think there's no doubt that on offense, the key is who is going to be our trigger puller."
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10. Kentucky's Archie Goodwin on what the loss to Vanderbilt meant for the Wildcats' NCAA Tournament chances: "This didn't help us at all. I know for a fact this really hurt us." Jerry Palm's latest outlook.
11. Did Alabama's zone defense throw off Tennessee's offense Friday? And did Tennessee coach Cuonzo Martin speak too soon?
12. Crimson Tide players glad to get another opportunity to face Florida. Trevor Releford: "Everybody in the locker room is excited about it. We've wanted them since we lost to them two weeks ago. It's going to be a good game."
13. Alabama has lost six straight to Florida. Will Yeguete will play two games in two days for the first time in college career.
14. If you're keeping score, Missouri has now lost six of their last seven games decided in the final seconds. Tigers 5-7 in games away from home in which they've had a lead in last 30 seconds.
15. Is Georgia a top-25 team if Kentavious Caldwell-Pope returns next year?
16. Auburn coach Tony Barbee gets a vote of confidence from A.D. Jay Jacobs. "My expectation is for our program to show significant improvement under coach Barbee's leadership."
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17. Have bowl, will host. In addition to Rose, Orange and Sugar, 31 bowls get invited to participate in college football's new playoffs. "In reality, if anybody other than the Cotton, Tostitos Fiesta and Chick-fil-A bowls are chosen, it will qualify as a major surprise."
18. When Maryland moves to the Big Ten, the school will receive an estimated $20-30 million in travel expense subsidies.
19. Charles Barkley wants to work a basketball game with Dick Vitale: "I would love to do a game with Dick Vitale because I think he has been great for college basketball. It'd be good for the game."
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The partnering will allow the two companies to take landfill trash and convert it to ethanol in one facility.
The Bend Bulletin reports Oregon-based InEnTec has contracted with Fulcrum BioEnergy Inc., to provide plasma-enhanced melters at a Reno, Nev., facility.
The InEnTec process won a host of awards in 2010 and has been hailed as an environmentally friendly solution to both waste management and energy production.
"This is an important sale for InEnTec," said Karl Schoene, InEnTec president and CEO. "Obviously it portends great things for the future."
Schoene said the project sets the stage for sales of InEnTec's plasma-enhanced melters for use in plants across the country and around the world.
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Every revolution starts with a single shot. Northwestern athletic director Jim Phillips fired one Thursday without realizing it.
Phillips did more than recommit to coach Bill Carmody for a 13th season. He renewed Northwestern's vow to interpret intercollegiate athletics the way no other Big Ten school does and few in Bowl Championship Series conferences even try. He clung to a quixotic approach to a recurring problem that has made Northwestern Chicago's Big Ten tease every March.
So continued America's fascinating sports sociology experiment in Evanston: Can a major-college sports program thrive in an environment in which winning clearly isn't the No. 1 determinant of success? As Final Four week begins, it would behoove every basketball campus to reconsider its definitions of thrive, winning and success.
Admirably, Phillips just did. Some ADs operating in an NCAA world increasingly driven by money and power take bold actions that define them and their institutions. In the case of Phillips and Northwestern, it was bold inaction.
Deciding not to fire Carmody after 12 years of missing the NCAA tournament made it clear that at Northwestern, winning basketball games still matters less than developing student-athletes. Honoring commitments means more than buckling to public pressure; relationships mean more than results.
I doubt Phillips or any other AD worth the booster-club revenue ever would agree publicly with that assessment for fear of alienating bottom-line fans every ticket office needs. But if that were not the reality about Northwestern, Phillips would have fired Carmody on Monday morning and called Shaka Smart and Chris Collins by Tuesday.
Instead, Phillips labored to explain an evaluation process that included letting input from Carmody's players influence his thinking. Making student-athletes feel empowered and respecting their opinions enough to ask — imagine that.
I understand why people might call Phillips' decision on Carmody an example of Northwestern accepting mediocrity. It just as easily could be defended as embracing individuality.
For the record, I advocated Phillips changing coaches and that Carmody didn't do anything wrong as much as he didn't do enough right. The Big Ten Network doesn't pump $22 million into each conference school's revenue stream because of viewer interest in members' respective life-skills programs.
So I reached a different conclusion about Carmody but loved the way Phillips defended his. I loved the idea of a Big Ten school espousing ideals more typically found in Division III programs, of an AD taking an unpopular route by taking a stand for something noble. I can applaud a decision I wouldn't have made because of what it symbolizes.
On one hand, Northwestern shows it recognizes the Big Ten basketball arms race by working on plans for $250 million worth of necessary facility upgrades. On the other, it stayed true to an underlying mission colleges usually ignore by keeping a coach who does things the right way.
"We're far from perfect but our compass is our compass and I never want to stray from that,'' Phillips said. "It is about academic integrity and graduating student-athletes and off-the-court issues and trying to make sure we hold our guys accountable and that they represent something larger than themselves.''
Every BCS school says that. How many live it?
"It is about trying to mold leaders and winning and competing for championships,'' Phillips said. "It's all part of the equation. At the heart of it, we want to win badly at Northwestern but we're not going to win at all costs. We're not going to do it without the right values.''
Roll your eyes and look up Pollyannaish if you wish. But ultimately Phillips' decision embodied the mandate for college sports programs Secretary of Education Arne Duncan outlined in a news conference on the eve of the NCAA tournament intended to remind schools of their priorities. Theoretically, Northwestern's stance also reflected the emphasis more Big Ten and BCS-conference universities must consider in light of the NCAA linking academic progress rate with tournament eligibility beginning in 2013.
"Raising expectations, raising the bar is always the right way to go, not dumbing things down — and that's what happened so often in the past,'' Duncan said. "When athletic programs have their priorities in order, there's no better way to teach invaluable life lessons than on the playing field or the court.''
The implication from Duncan's comments was that, more than ever at the start of what many educators hope is an NCAA revolution, athletic departments will be forced to decide what they want to be.
Like it or not, Phillips reminded us last week that Northwestern already knows.
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Wednesday is the NCAA's National Signing Day, which is the first day football players are able to sign a National Letter of Intent to their future colleges. Athletes from around the country will participate in the event, and the Anniston area is no exception.
Oxford High running back Racean Thomas and Clay Central defensive end DeAndre Wills headline the day as they are set to sign with major conference schools. Thomas is set to sign with Auburn of the Southeastern Conference, and Wills has announced he is going with Nebraska of the Big 12.
"There's excitement building," said Clay Central coach Kris Herron, Wills' coach. "We're going to have an assembly with his teammates, classmates and his family is coming in. It's exciting. It's an exciting time for him and us."
Thomas will be joined by three teammates at a 9 a.m. ceremony in the Oxford gym, as defensive back Tae Davis (Chattanooga), athlete Desmon Owens (Tuskegee) and defensive lineman Kenyn Richey (Tuskegee) also are signing with college programs.
"It's going to be awesome. It's a great opportunity these kids have in front of them, and it's great to have the school to watch them do this," Oxford coach Ryan Herring said. "Having people sign these scholarships doesn't happen every year at every school. I've been at places where for consecutive years nobody signs anything. It's an honor and a privilege to be able to do it."
For Clay Central, this year marks the second time since the school opened in August 2012 the Vols will have an FBS signee, as Jamari Staples signed with UAB last year.
"I think it goes back to what you always tell the players: If you work hard and do good things, good things are going to happen to good people," Herron said. "Both of those guys are two good young men. They've done things we've asked them to do, taken care of business on the academic side, and it speaks volumes for them as individuals. We're excited they got a chance to further their education."
Jacksonville and Munford also will have football players sign with college programs, including three sets of athletes who will be college teammates.
Jacksonville running back Dominique Thomas and Saks athlete Tre Smith are signing with Central Arkansas, an FCS school. Oxford teammates Owens and Richey are headed to Tuskegee, which is in Division II. Chattanooga, an FCS school, is expected to land Oxford's Davis and Munford defensive back Tavon Lawson, who confirmed Tuesday evening he plans to sign with the Mocs.
"I think it'll make the transition a lot easier," Herring said. "They've got someone they can trust and lean on when they get home sick or any little thing that can happen. They'll have someone to make the trip home with. It's something that's positive and beneficial in several ways."
Football isn't the only sport to have local signees Wednesday. Faith Christian goalkeeper Sydney Nordan will sign with the UAB women's soccer program, and Jacksonville outside hitter Katie Neisler will sign with Samford's volleyball team.
Local signing day participants
Faith Christian: Sydney Nordan (UAB soccer), 12:30 p.m.
Jacksonville: Dominique Thomas (Central Arkansas), Miles Clark (Florida Tech), Katie Neisler (Samford volleyball), 8 a.m.
Oxford: Racean Thomas (Auburn), Tae Davis (Chattanooga) Desmon Owens (Tuskegee), Kenyn Richey (Tuskegee), 9 a.m.
Saks: Tre Smith (Central Arkansas), Friday, 1:30 p.m.
Clay Central: DeAndre Wills (Nebraska), 10 a.m.
Munford: Monteo Garrett (Jones County (Miss.) Junior College), Tavon Lawson (Chatanooga), Earl Moss (Miles), 10:30 a.m.


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I am a new mom with an almost six month old. She loves to sleep about 12hrs around 9-9 with one or two feedings in the middle of the night. During the day, she gets to crawl, creep, roll, and or jump around. We get her out of house--well my husband or grandma (whomever is watching her). She is going longer between feedings and when she does she nurses about 7-15 minutes. I think it depends what my milk is like--sometimes with more foremilk she will nurse until she gets the good stuff. I am thinking: is your son in the middle or top of his age group according to well-baby check-ups? My little one is 95% in her height and weight...she is top 5%...so I don't know if that makes a difference. Also, I am not a big routine person but when it comes to food and sleep I try to make those predictable so she has a natural pattern:
Sleeps between 9-9:30, nurses around 2AM
Nurses at 6:30AM
Wakes at 9-9:30AM
Plays until 11:15or so
Naps 11:30-12 or 12:30
Bottle 12 or 12:30
Naps 1:30
Nurses 2:30
Naps 3-4PM
Jump/C;reep/Tummy time 4-4:30
Naps 5:30-6PM
More jump, crawl, tummy fun time 6-7PM
Nap 7-7:30
Nurse and then solids 7:30-7:45PM
Play, talk, etc 7:45PM-8:45PM
Bedtime routine: always: pajamas, read and sing, nurse or pacifier (bath ever other night)
Hope that helps. :)
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I would read at least a book or act out that book. I would do something physical...play in the kitchen, exercise, etc. I would make sure there were lots of hugs, kisses, positivity.
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The Man of Steel had gotten rusty. While his DC Comics counterpart Batman was conquering the world via the Dark Knight trilogy, and the rivals over at Marvel Comics were raking in the cash with "The Avengers" and all its spinoff films, Superman had been put into mothballs.
Henry Cavill as Superman in "Man of Steel."
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"MAN OF STEEL" starring Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Diane Lane, Kevin Costner and Laurence Fishburne. Directed by Zach Snyder. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence, action and destruction, and for some language. Running time: 2:23
His last cinematic outing, 2006's costly "Superman Returns," was director Bryan Singer's affectionate tribute to the 1978 Richard Donner original starring Christopher Reeve. But the movie, which grossed $390 million, felt too familiar and reverent to justify its budget of $270 million. Although Superman comics continued to sell well, and the TV series "Smallville" ran for 10 seasons depicting the adventures of a teenage Clark Kent, Hollywood had temporarily forgotten about the invulnerable do-gooder.
But with the "Batman" finale rapidly approaching, and comic-book movies showing no sign of slowing down, executives at Warner Bros. knew they needed to figure out a way to revive their most iconic – and potentially lucrative – hero.
The question was: How do you make a 75-year-old character cool and hip to modern audiences?
"It was really a case of the good Superman movies having run their course," says Zack Snyder ("Watchmen," "300"), who directed "Man of Steel," which opens Friday. "They had used up all the character's battery life, and we needed to juice him up. I have great respect for all those films, and they endure in pop culture for a reason. But when we started thinking about this one, we couldn't think of it as any movie that had ever been made before. We couldn't cherry-pick the stuff we liked, such as that famous John Williams score. We had to make everything new. We haven't seen a Superman origin story since 1978. My kids have no idea where he comes from."
The screenwriter tasked with reviving Superman was David S. Goyer, writer of the "Dark Knight" trilogy for filmmaker Christopher Nolan, who produced "Man of Steel."
The job was one Goyer originally didn't want.
"During the junket for 'Batman Begins,' someone asked me if I would ever take a crack at Superman and I said no, because I didn't have an affinity for the character," Goyer says. "I loved the Donner films as a kid, but I didn't read the comics growing up. I gravitated more toward Batman. And I liked Singer's film, but I felt it was an homage to the Donner films and the depiction of the characters felt a little anachronistic.
"There was this sense that the public's perception of Superman hadn't really changed very much," Goyer says. "Even though he has been reinvented several times in the comics, he never really evolved beyond those first movies. Trying to reimagine Superman for film is a much steeper hill to climb than Batman. And consequently, the script was a lot more difficult to write."
Unlike Batman's brooding sense of vigilante-style justice or Spider-Man's adolescent angst, Superman – an alien sent to Earth by his father just before their home planet Krypton blew up – was a fantastical creation, bordering more on sci-fi and less on relatable human emotions. The light from our sun gives him extraordinary abilities: flying; invulnerability; immeasurable strength and speed. The guy can even shoot laser beams from his eyes – practically a Swiss Army knife of superhero powers.
"It's hard to identify with a god," Goyer says. "It's also hard to feel empathy for a character who is invulnerable. (Chris Nolan) and I decided from the beginning that in this first film, we were not going to rely on the crutch of kryptonite, which is the only thing that can hurt him. That was the bar we set for ourselves. Can we get the audience to sympathize with this character without relying on kryptonite?"
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Devils' first three preseason games canceled because of NHL lockout
The NHL announced today that it has canceled all preseason games scheduled through Sept. 30 because of the owners' lockout.
That wipes out the Devils' first three preseason games—Wednesday, Sept. 26 against the Rangers at Albany, Friday, Sept. 28 against the Rangers at Prudential Center and Saturday, Sept. 29 against the Islanders at Prudential Center.
The Devils still have four preseason games scheduled, but only one at Prudential Center—Monday, Oct. 1 at Philadelphia; Tuesday, Oct. 2 against the Islanders at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn; Friday Oct. 5 against Philadelphia at Prudential Center and Sunday Oct. 7 at Montreal.
The Devils are scheduled to open the regular season on Friday, Oct. 12 in Washington.
The NHL preseason was scheduled to get under way on Sunday and the first regular season games are slated for Thursday, Oct. 11.
The NHL informed its employees today that if the lockout lasts until Oct. 1, they will be reduced to a four-day work week and have their salaries cut 20 percent. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and deputy commissioner Bill Daly are not taking any pay during the lockout, which is in its fourth day.
There were no formal negotiations again today and none are scheduled. The NHL and NHLPA have not met face to face since last Wednesday when the side exchanged proposals.


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Kurt Cobain was a talented songwriter and an awful guitarist who thought he'd be "different" by whining about how cruel the world was, and not finding any positive direction because all of his thought was negative because he has a victim complex because he had the self-awareness of a Goldfish.
But do I expect most people to get it -- hell, no. To them being a nihilist is something that sounds cool while on their path to score a mate, buy a house, fake a "career" and spawn then die. They're as intentional as goldfish.
What's the story behind "Pink Frothy AIDS"?
Having reviewed the thread, baby Jesus is most definitely weeping at this point.
Will ANUS ever run the boot camp they keep talking about, or did I miss it?
Does Prozak ever post here?I do not. My time needs to go toward maintaining the site, and the forum is in capable hands (Kontinual and our Keepers).
The original Aryans don't exist, and their descendents (looking at language group) also include Iranians, which are different from Europeans.
QuoteDoes Prozak ever post here?I do not. My time needs to go toward maintaining the site, and the forum is in capable hands (Kontinual and our Keepers).This is a blatant lie, as Prozak's writing style is extremely easy to identify and surfaces in about 5 - 10 obvious sockpuppets here on Metal Hall and elsewhere.
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Recently, a range of information-processing circuits have been implemented in DNA by using strand displacement as their main computational mechanism. Examples include digital logic circuits and catalytic signal amplification circuits that function as efficient molecular detectors. As new paradigms for DNA computation emerge, the development of corresponding languages and tools for these paradigms will help to facilitate the design of DNA circuits and their compilation to nucleotide sequences.
We present a programming language for designing and simulating DNA circuits in which strand displacement is the main computational mechanism. The language includes basic elements of sequence domains, toeholds and branch migration, and assumes that strands do not possess any secondary structure. The language is used to model and simulate a variety of circuits, including an entropy-driven catalytic gate, a simple gate motif for synthesizing large-scale circuits and a scheme for implementing an arbitrary system of chemical reactions. The language is a first step towards the design of modelling and simulation tools for DNA strand displacement, which complements the emergence of novel implementation strategies for DNA computing.
DNA Strand Displacement Simulator (2014-0219)
- Web Simulator (requires Silverlight 4.0 for Windows or Mac).
- Documentation: Tutorial, User Manual and Release Notes.
- Command-line simulator: Windows, OS X and OCaml Bytecode.
- Contact: Andrew Phillips (firstname.lastname@example.com).
- Previous versions: 2013-0214; 2012-0920; 2011-0721
- Matthew Lakin, Filippo Polo, Simon Youssef, Kathryn Gray, Rasmus Petersen, Luca Cardelli and Andrew Phillips.
- DSD was developed by Matthew Lakin, Filippo Polo, Simon Youssef, Kathryn Gray, Rasmus Petersen and Andrew Phillips at Microsoft Research.
- Luca Cardelli assisted with extensive testing of DSD together with the design of the DSD language.
- Neil Dalchau assisted with the development of an ODE solver for DSD.
- Erik Winfree and his group have provided valuable feedback on DSD, together with Georg Seelig and his group.
- The core DSD language was developed in F#.
- DSD uses Dynamic Data Display for visualising simulation plots.
- DSD uses Microsoft Automatic Graph Layout for visualising networks.
- Matthew R. Lakin and Andrew Phillips, Compiling DNA Strand Displacement Reactions Using a Functional Programming Language, in Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages - 16th International Symposium, Springer, January 2014
- Yuan-Jyue Chen, Neil Dalchau, Niranjan Srnivas, Andrew Phillips, Luca Cardelli, David Soloveichik, and Georg Seelig, Programmable chemical controllers made from DNA, in Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Publishing Group, 29 September 2013
- Boyan Yordanov, Christoph Wintersteiger, Youssef Hamadi, Andrew Phillips, and Hillel Kugler, Functional Analysis of Large-scale DNA Strand Displacement Circuits, in International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming, vol. 8141, pp. 189-203, Springer, September 2013
- Matthew R. Lakin, Andrew Phillips, and Darko Stefanovic, Modular verification of DNA strand displacement networks via serializability analysis, in International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming, vol. 8141, pp. 133-146, Springer Verlag, September 2013
- Matthew Lakin, David Parker, Luca Cardelli, Marta Kwiatkowska, and Andrew Phillips, Design and Analysis of DNA Strand Displacement Devices using Probabilistic Model Checking, in Journal of the Royal Society Interface, vol. 9, no. 72, pp. 1470-1485 , The Royal Society, July 2012
- Matthew Lakin, Loïc Paulevé, and Andrew Phillips, Stochastic Simulation of Multiple Process Calculi for Biology, in Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 431, pp. 181-206, Elsevier, May 2012
- Matthew Lakin, Simon Youssef, Luca Cardelli, and Andrew Phillips, Abstractions for DNA circuit design, in Journal of the Royal Society Interface, vol. 9, no. 68, pp. 470-486, The Royal Society, March 2012
- Matthew Lakin, Simon Youssef, Filippo Polo, Stephen Emmott, and Andrew Phillips, Visual DSD: a design and analysis tool for DNA strand displacement systems, in Bioinformatics, vol. 27, no. 22, pp. 3211–3213, Oxford University Press, November 2011
- Harish Chandran, Nikhil Gopalkrishnan, Andrew Phillips, and John Reif, Localized Hybridization Circuits, in International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming, vol. 6937, pp. 64-83, Springer Verlag, September 2011
- Matthew Lakin and Andrew Phillips, Modelling, simulating and verifying Turing-powerful strand displacement systems, in International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming , vol. 6937, pp. 130-144, Springer Verlag, September 2011
Publications using DSD
- Lulu Qian, Erik Winfree & Jehoshua Bruck. Neural network computation with DNA strand displacement cascades. Nature 475: 368–372. July 2011.
- Lulu Qian and Erik Winfree. Scaling Up Digital Circuit Computation with DNA Strand Displacement Cascades. Science 332: 1196-1201. June 2011.
Publications citing DSD
- David Zhang and Georg Seelig. Dynamic DNA nanotechnology using strand displacement reactions. Nature Chemistry 3: 103-113. February 2011.


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Posted 20 March 2013 - 09:32 AM
NL West - Giants (fantastic pitching)
NL Central - Reds (more due to the mediocrity of the central than anything)
NL East - Nationals (pitching pitching pitching and the defense gets even better with Span)
Wild Cards - Braves and Diamondbacks (surprisingly, it's not because of the Upton bros but career years from Heyward and Freeman)
AL West - Angels (SIGN ALL THE PLAYERS lite)
AL Central - Tigers (Indians will make a run but will fade by July. Detroit will win division by 10 games at least)
AL East - Rays (young pitching will make fans forget Shields and Davis)
Wild Cards - Blue Jays and Rangers (Reyes has a bounceback year and the Rangers are loaded. Back end of rotation is questionable)
AL MVP - Trout (first 30-50 guy since pre-steroids Bonds)
NL MVP - Joey Votto (his OBP will challenge steroids Bonds)
AL Cy Young - Verlander (Best pitcher of his generation will be a first ballot hall of fame if he stays healthy)
NL Cy Young - Matt Cain (Most underrated pitcher in baseball. Been boned by poor run support in the past)
AL ROY - Myers (lazy pick, I know)
NL ROY - Arendo. As far as i know he's killing it in camp. If he doesn't make the team, Adam Eaton.
AL Comeback Player - Victor Martinez (full time DH will keep his legs fresh, hitting in that murderer's row of a lineup will let him see lots of good pitches)
NL Comeback Player - Mark Prior (if he can be a decent MR he deserves that and a movie,)
Biggest disappointment is the Dodgers. They'll have a better record than the Yankees (low to mid 80s), but they'll be a disaster in the clubhouse.. Gonzalez, Beckett and Crawford were dumped for a reason (the first two are assholes, the latter is going to at the best be rusty at the worst be completely shot). Hanley Ramirez is a lollygagger, and there are going to be some very pissed off starting pitchers who are going to be working out of the bullpen. Ellis is ancient for a 2B and Cruz is a replacement level player at 3rd. Ramirez has barely played SS this year and got injured in last night's game. Mattingly gets fired and they'll throw a bunch of money somebody like LaRussa or Pinella and they'll still suck even after they give Cano a $200 million contract in the offseason.
Biggest surprise - Diamondbacks. Jokes about SCRAP aside they'll have a fantastic OF defense. They'll make a big acquisition at the deadline and will keep the Cardinals and Phillies out of the playoffs and win my eternal gratitude.
Worst team in the NL - The Mets. That outfield is horrible and their pitching is going to be bad.
Worst Team in the AL - The Astros. Duh.
How will the Cubs do? They won't be in last place in the Central (that will be the Brewers after Ryan Braun is caught shooting up alligator pee to skirt MLB's drug testing policy and suspended).
Soriano gets traded to the Yankees. Marmol to the Tigers. Garza to the Diamondbacks. Feldman also gets shipped at the deadline to.. let's say the Phillies since Halladay looks shot.
World Series - Tigers over Nationals. VMart solves the lineup problems they had last season. Marmol gets the save in the clinching game and Leyland rides of into the sunset
Posted 20 March 2013 - 09:39 AM
Posted 20 March 2013 - 11:26 AM
NL Central: Reds
NL East: Nationals
NL Wild Cards: Giants, Braves
AL West: Angels
AL Central: Tigers
AL East: Blue Jays
AL Wild Cards: Rays, O's
AL MVP: Longoria
NL MVP: Votto
AL Cy Young: Verlander
NL Cy Young: G. Gonzalez
AL ROY: Profar
NL ROY: Eaton
(I honestly don't know if either of those guys qualify as rookies. Oh well.)
AL Comeback Player: V-Mart
NL Comeback Player: Crawford
Biggest disappointment: uhm...the Yankees? I dunno. Disappointing for them in the sense they miss the playoffs.
Biggest surprise: Royals contend for AL Central til late August.
Worst AL: Astros
Worst NL: Marlins
Cubs: 5th place, 94 losses, second worst record in the NL and 3rd worst in MLB.
World Series: Angels over Dodgers
Posted 20 March 2013 - 12:44 PM
NLE - Nationals - DAAAAAAAAAAAANG they are good. 107 wins.
NLW - Dodgers - Finish with 85 wins, which is just good enough.
NLWC - Braves - Bourn and Upton's suckitude makes Kyle STFU but they still make the wild card.
NLWC - Cardinals - Even after getting sucked into a black hole, they still manage to make the playoffs.
NL MVP - Matt Kemp - And we all vomit uncontrollably for weeks.
NL CY - Strasburg - And we all have explosive diarrhea for weeks.
NL RoY - No Clue
ALC - Tigers - After Fielder goes down with a season ending injury, the team plane gets to games hours quicker and a noticably more rested team destroys the White Sox...like, literally destroys them.
ALE - Yankees - Because of course. (h/t to Brett)
ALW - Mariners - the 2013 version of the 2012 Orioles shock the nation as they defeat the A's in a play-in-game
ALWC - Rays - Basically, they are a real life version of what I have built with my 2025 Cubs on OOTP and by the end of the season, no player is over 25.
ALWC - Indians - Because I REALLY don't want to pick the Angels.
ALMVP - Miguel Cabrera - Still pissed about the 2012 snub, demands that Dombrowski trades for Tony Campana, then eats Tony Campana. Credits this act for getting him a triple slash of .410/.650/.700, smashes all records. Snubbed again for Mike Trout (the media's love affair knows no bounds). After hitting .200/.225/.194 for the first month, he is sent back to AAA where he hits .205/.210/.194. Out of baseball by 2015.
ALCY - Verlander - Cries from the media in April about him throwing 130 pitches in a game fall on deaf ears. Throws a 200 pitch perfecto on his last start of the year. Traded to the Cubs after the season, despite numerous medial tests that indicate he does have a bionic arm, has career ending minor tightness in his back during 2014 ST.
ALRoY - No Clue.
Cubs - 68-94, worst in the NLC, 3rd worst in baseball. Farm system ranked #5 after season. Samardjiza gets no extension but backs up 2012 season. Rizzo struggles, Castillo comitts 74 errors, Castro hits .310/.350/.450 and wins SS GG, Paul Sullivan includes the line "move Castro to 3rd" in his reporting of the GG.
DeJesus, Garza, Marmol, Barney and Feldman are traded mid-season. Soriano trade rumors are a daily event for the next 15 months (roughly 2014 trade deadline).
WS - Tigers over Nationals in 7.
Posted 20 March 2013 - 01:34 PM
NL Central: Reds
NL East: Nationals
NL Wild Cards: Phillies, Braves
AL West: Angels
AL Central: Tigers
AL East: Blue Jays
AL Wild Cards: Rays, Indians
AL MVP: Albert Pujols or Robinson Cano
NL MVP: Bryce Harper
AL Cy Young: Jered Weaver
NL Cy Young: Cliff Lee
AL ROY: Aaron Hicks, Min or Dylan Bundy, Bal if he gets enough time
NL ROY: Jedd Gyorko
AL Comeback Player: Mariano Rivera; even if he's close to form, he'll get this from wet pants writers waiting to praise him.
NL Comeback Player: Troy Tulowitzki/Roy Halladay
Biggest disappointment: Orioles, A's; Cinderella goes back to being a maid this year.
Biggest surprise: Phillies; Halladay, Utley, and Howard all have bounceback years
Worst AL: Astros, like others have said, duh.
Worst NL: Marlins/Rockies The Marlins are bad, but so were the Rockies last year and they didn't do much to upgrade
Cubs: 75-87; closer to .500 in June but start to slip and move players as deadline nears.
DeJesus and Marmol moved, as well as Garza finally being traded. Soriano remains a Cub as other gm's continue to drop the ball on adding a 30 hr bat to their potential playoff run.
World Series: Nationals over Angels
Strasburg is the difference in the postseason, teaming with Gonzalez, Zimmerman, and Haren to give the Nats a dominant September run.
Posted 20 March 2013 - 02:40 PM
AL Comeback Player: Mariano Rivera; even if he's close to form, he'll get this from wet pants writers waiting to praise him
Pfft, as long as he doesn't suck he'll get Comeback Player and be top-15 for Cy Young.
Posted 20 March 2013 - 09:07 PM
Posted 20 March 2013 - 09:19 PM
Speaking about Prince Fielder Hansman http://www.theonion....lary-arb,18897/
I counted 116 cheeseburgers, which, given the exchange rate equals 127 hamburgers, which is my typical 4th meal, or what you may call "brunch".
Posted 20 March 2013 - 10:25 PM
That made me want a cheeseburger.
Speaking about Prince Fielder Hansman http://www.theonion....lary-arb,18897/
Posted 21 March 2013 - 08:02 AM
Speaking about Prince Fielder Hansman http://www.theonion....lary-arb,18897/
I do like the title though:
Prince Hansman. I will allow you all to still just call me Hamburg...er I mean, Hansman.
Posted 21 March 2013 - 09:07 AM
Posted 21 March 2013 - 09:23 AM
East: Braves
Central: Pirates
West: Dodgers
Wild Card: Nationals and Reds
East: Blue Jays
Central: Tigers
West: Angels
Wild Cards: A's and Rays
NL MVP: Kemp
AL MVP: Hamilton
Biggest Suprise:
NL: Wellington Castillo(will be an all-star)
AL: Trout(Will disappoint a lot of people and have a down year considering the hype he built last year. Will not hit .300 or 30 HR in my opinion.)
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Posted 21 March 2013 - 09:28 AM
AL: Justin Verlander
NL: Strasburg
AL: Aaron Hicks
NL: Zack Wheeler
Cubs will go 78-84, down from my previous 82-80 prediction.
Posted 21 March 2013 - 09:48 AM
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Governor O'Malley and Senator Mikulski to Celebrate Completion of the One Maryland Broadband Network
ANNAPOLIS (October 14, 2013) – Tomorrow, Tuesday, October 15, Governor Martin O'Malley will join Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, Howard County Executive Ken Ulman and state and local officials, to visit Kent Island High School and highlight the successful completion of the One Maryland Broadband Network and the benefits additional broadband capacity brings to Maryland communities. The One Maryland Broadband Network project connects over 1,066 community anchor institutions, such as schools, police facilities, libraries, colleges and universities with 1,321 new miles of fiber.
When: Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Where: Kent Island High School, 900 Love Point Rd, Stevensville, MD 21666
The One Maryland Broadband Network has been regarded as a model partnership between federal, state and local communities. Maryland communities are now able to access affordable, abundant and very high speed broadband in every part of our state. This infrastructure is paving the way for the future of high-speed internet service in our State while expanding economic opportunities, increasing our ability to provide public safety and health services, and strengthening our small business communities.


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By Todd Ceisner
BassFan Editor
The unseasonably warm weather much of the country has enjoyed this year has certainly had a positive impact on fishing and the industry as a whole.
Several industry types remarked last week at ICAST that if you couldn�t make a dime in the fishing industry this year, it may be time to explore other business ventures.
One place where the effect of the warming trend has been seen and felt is Lake St. Clair, the patch of water that sits between Lakes Huron and Erie and connects to Erie via the Detroit River. It�s long been a haven for smallmouth seekers who maybe aren�t inclined to jump on its Great Lake neighbors and this year, it�s been on fire.
Smallmouth guru and longtime St. Clair ace Joe Balog checked in with BassFan earlier this week for the latest installment of the BassFan Pro Fishing Tip and to share his take on summertime smallies at St. Clair. He also revealed his approach to breaking down the lake (hint: it takes time) and what he might be throwing at this week�s Bassmaster Detroit River Northern Open.
�The only major change that I�ve seen and I don�t know if it has to do with the weather, but the fishing on St. Clair has been phenomenal,� Balog said. �If it�s not the best smallmouth fishing in the country, I find it hard to believe there�s any place that cranks out more 3 1/2- to 5-pound fish than St. Clair.�
Years ago, in the lake�s heyday of the late 1990s, 18-pound stringers were considered a good day�s work. Nowadays, bags in the low to mid-20s are needed to sniff a win.
�The lake has a tremendous population of fish in that size class,� he added. �With it being so warm this year, we had tremendous fishing earlier than we�ve ever had. There was an extended pre-spawn window. I fish a lot for walleye and panfish, too, and the fishing is probably the best I�ve ever seen.�
Finders Keepers
It�s no secret smallmouths are like expectant fathers � they have a hard time sitting still. They�re also apt to roam around in packs. The brownbacks at St. Clair are no different and Balog says the main challenge, especially for out-of-towners fishing this week�s tournament, will be locating and staying on fish.
�With St. Clair, the best way to find fish is to pick up a crankbait, wait for the wind to blow and put it at your back and try to go 2 miles an hour cranking and then crank and crank and crank until you catch a big one,� he said. �Then go back and dial it in when it�s calm and try to find the sweet spots.�
Easier said than done. It�s expected that the best stringers will be caught by guys who know the lake and river well � those who have logged hundreds of hours on the water tracking the movements of the fish.
�It�s a matter of covering water here,� he said. �The hard thing is you can get on this lake and you can drive around all day on your electronics and rarely will you see much of anything. It�s pretty flat and the fish will relate to breaks in the grass and sandy spots more than anything. The only way, usually, to find them is to fish.
�That�ll be the biggest challenge for most guys,� he added. �Not only is it hard to find stuff other than fishing and putting in time, but even when you do, the fish move around quite a bit and you have to re-find them every day and you have to have confidence you�re in the good areas.�
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At 25 miles long and 22 miles wide, St. Clair offers plenty of fishable water � Balog estimates 90 percent of it is suitable bass habitat. The Detroit River also offers fertile fishing grounds, but the popular sentiment is the winning fish will come out of St. Clair.
�So if you put your trolling motor on high and throw a crankbait all day you�ll fish less than 1 percent of the lake,� he said. �A lot of places you�ll go out in the middle of the lake and there�s not much there, but at St. Clair, you can go out in the middle and it�ll be 18 feet and there�ll be grass and perch and crawfish so they could be anywhere.�
When some folks hear �Great Lakes� and �smallmouth� in the same breath, they tend to reach for their spinning gear, light line and dropshot rig, provided the conditions allow them to get far enough offshore. While that�ll certainly put fish in the boat when the water�s clear and the fish aren�t inhaling reaction baits, Balog won�t be focused on finessing them this week.
He�ll be throwing a Rapala DT-16 crankbait and maybe mixing in the Goby Replica swimbait that he designed, mining the depths where the fish tend to hang out during the summer. Sure, he�ll have a dropshot rod rigged with Trigger-X plastics at the ready, but he�s banking on the better fish going after the plug.
�Traditionally this time of year, the majority of fish are either relating to current around the St. Clair River or the channels that come into the lake or they�re in the deeper basins of the lake from 16 to 20 feet,� he said.
That doesn�t rule out shallow water, however. Balog said there�s a strong population of fish that live in 4 to 6 feet of water and there will be a contingent of anglers targeting those fish with spinnerbaits and jerkbaits.
�You can do whatever you want here,� he said. �If you go to Lake Erie this time of year, you�ll need two rods. Here, you can catch them on 25 different things all year round.
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The question: Once I have multiple servers, how will the sweeper on instance Server_A.mongrel_L know to expire cache when a new object was created using instance Server_B.mongrel_M?
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This is a great question. I've got 6 production servers and I played around with caching during development, but now that I've gone live I have sweeper tests on my todo list but I haven't yet gone forward on that. I've been really anxious to find out about this very thing though so if time permits tomorrow I will give it a go and update this thread. It's just a single MySQL database server but 6 front end web servers packed with mongrel clusters. I'm hoping sweepers will work across servers otherwise I'll have to implement a shared location for caching. Boo!
Anyone else on this? Perhaps the sweeper at Server_B could call a rake take on Server_A?
Love some advice!
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I have been struggling with the same issue. I am going live with an app spread out over 4 servers next month and this is one of the last things on my todo list.
Asked over here as well and go no replies: http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=15952
At this point its either...
Put cache on NFS share between all 4... (not good) Rsync the cache dirs (I was left with some crazy rsync stuff and its not that pretty) Another model with items to expire.. all servers run some sort of rake task to read this model and expire data.
I also got ideas for several other hacky solutions.. but haven't started on anything yet and nothing seems like the "correct" way to do it...
OK, after a little research the solution appears to be memcached. I haven't implemented it yet but there's a recipe for it in the "Rails Cookbook":http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527310/ that clearly shows how it can utilize the memory on multiple servers for caching. Also, the "Cache_fu plugin":http://errtheblog.com/posts/57-kickin-ass-w-cachefu looks pretty choice as well to simplify things. There's definitely some administrative overhead and some code changes that comes along but it doesn't seem too intense.
I will eventually be trying this route. When I do I'll post back.
Thanks Raul... I noticed that memcached had the ability to do that. I'm a little afraid to use memcache with my first large rails deployment.. and I'm not sure our servers are beefy enough.
I think I may make a new model of items to remove from the cache and just stick in the full path... Then on each server just have a small perl daemon running that monitors the db for new items to remove...
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved new limits on commodities traders. Now analysts want to know what will happen next.
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The CFTC decision (the full text is here) places various limits on how much a speculative trader, like a hedge fund or ETF manager, can hold in any of 28 commodity contracts, including energy. The aim is to prevent a run-up like June 2008 when oil hit $140 a barrel which ultimately introduced $4 a gallon gasoline at the pumps. The problem is, according to futures analysts, if speculators aren't allowed to buy the futures, they'll buy the physical commodity instead.
"Eventually you're going to see a shortage, I think it's going to create a disruption in the marketplace. We might get away with it for some time, but if there's a crisis like 2008 you'll see one," Phil Flynn, the energy analyst at PFG Best, a Chicago brokerage, told me this morning (he also lets loose on his morning market commentary). Similarly, if less ominously, CME Group (CME) chairman Terry Duffy told CNBC yesterday ahead of the CFTC vote that passage would "encourage manipulation" of the markets.
Why would they do so? In a financial crisis, large traders will often want to buy futures as a hedge against the dollar plunging or the euro falling apart. Being unable to buy as much as they can on the futures market will just shift them to physicals, exacerbating a crisis and even keeping a lid on contrarian bets that would push prices lower. Hoarding physical oil isn't unheard of: a hedge fund or brokerage big enough has the resources to buy actual oil and sit on it. The infamous Marc Rich was known to do so during the commodities crisis of the late 1970s and early 1980s, and I've heard rumors of large, brand-name Wall Street brokers doing so in more recent years, buying not only oil but the cargo ships that carry oil.
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But it may be telling that CFTC board member Michael Dunn called the regulations a "sideshow" and that no one has even proved excessive speculation in the future market "even exists." Still, Dunn voted in favor of the measure, saying Congress mandated it.


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LINCOLN — Nebraska will try to add to its success in Memorial Stadium night games when it starts next season with a pair of late kickoffs that will be carried by the Big Ten Network.
NU and BTN announced Monday that the Huskers' season-opening game with Wyoming on Aug. 31 will be carried live at 7 p.m. NU then will kick off at 5 p.m. against Southern Mississippi on Sept. 7 with coverage by BTN.
Nebraska owns an all-time record of 37-5 in night games at home. That mark includes 11 straight wins under the lights at Memorial Stadium.
"Memorial Stadium always has a great atmosphere, and kicking off the season with two home night games should bring even more energy to the stadium," NU coach Bo Pelini said in a release.
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According to research by Sageworks, which provides analysis of privately held companies, sales at hair salons are up 5.37 percent since 2009, while hairdressers' profit margins averaged 7.8 percent over the last two years. Profits hit a low of 4.25 percent in 2008, before heading back up.
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John Paul Dejoria, founder of hair care company Paul Mitchell, told Business Insider that "Beauty salons are the best economic indicator. Typically, customers will visit every six weeks; in downturns, that drops to every eight weeks. When it goes up again, things are on the mend."
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Use for crossfit, nice that it has pockets. very light. not sure how long it will last but much better than some of the UA stuff and regular nike stuff.
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Generally I like everything about these shorts and I now have 2 pairs. They are extremely comfortable and breathable. They are very good quality and go through many washes without fading.They are great for gym workouts with weights and cardio. The only thing is that the size of the waist seems larger than I would have thought for the size I am.
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